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"We Lodovico Maria, lord of Milan, affirm these orders to be those which we desire to be followed after our death, in the government of the State, under our son and successor in the Duchy. And in token of this, we have subscribed them with our own hand, and have appended our ducal seal." L. Pélissier, op. cit. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 650. P. Pasolini, Caterina Sforza, iii.
"Leonardo da Vinci," by Eugène Müntz, vol. i. p. 226. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 388. F. Calvi, Bianca Maria Sforza
Beatrice had long been dead, her children were in exile, and the Moro was wearing his heart out in lonely captivity within the gloomy prison walls of Loches. C. dell'Acqua, Lorenzo Gusnasco, pp. 19, 20. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., pp. 622, 623.
"The duke has lost state, fortune, and liberty, and not one of his works has been completed." In these last melancholy words we read Lodovico Sforza's epitaph, pronounced over him by Leonardo the Florentine. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 672.
Some weeks, however, passed before they were pronounced fit to travel safely, and it was not till February of the following year that they were sent to Mantua, with a note from Lodovico, explaining that the keeper who accompanied them was accustomed to wild beasts, and would teach Gianfrancesco's servants how to treat them. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 114.
From the year after her marriage her health began to droop, and she became gradually weaker, until in 1510 she died of this lingering illness, and was buried in the Franciscan church of Innsbrück, where the bronze effigy of Maximilian's Lombard bride, robed in the rich brocades which she loved so well, still adorns his sumptuous mausoleum. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 383.
Together they rode on horseback over the covered bridge which spans the river, and passed through the long streets until they reached the goal of their journey, and entered the gates of the far-famed Castello of Pavia. A Muratori, R. I. S., xxiv. 282. Luzio-Renier in A. S. L., xvii. 85.
But for the moment counsels of peace prevailed, and the ambitious Moro could look forward with hope and confidence to the coming year, that promised to bring him new joys, and perchance the fulfilment of his long-cherished desire, in the birth of a son and heir. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 350, etc. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 356. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 361.
As she wrote in her joyous letters to her husband, there was nothing lacking that could charm the eyes or please the mind, and the courtesy and hospitality of the venerable old Doge and of the Venetian Signory left nothing to be desired. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 376. Molmenti, op. cit., p. 693.
Lodovico wrote her word that he had been arranging a tournament at Pavia in honour of the christening of Gian Galeazzo's son, the little Count of Pavia, but that since she would not come, he had made up his mind to put it off and have no jousting. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 112. Luzio-Renier, op. cit., p. 113.
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